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John Bilorusky

Updated July 2023.
My family: I live in Oakland with my wife, Janet, and near our 24 year old twins, Kyle and Nicole (Nicole with her husband, Colin Dixon), and my oldest son, Clark, 35 (with his wife, Donna and children, Ilaw and Tala).

About me today: I play full court basketball 3x/week with mostly guys 20-40; My wife, Janet, and I love dancing to the music of the 20s, 30s and 40s, and do so often. What we do is a sort of distinctive combination of things-- improvisational jazz, ballroom, and swing dancing. For me, it's a real passion!

Janet and I married (neither for the first time) in 1996 and are semi-retired. She is a nurse. I am the Executive Director (only 50% time, finally) and faculty member at the Western Institute for Social Research-- offering graduate programs in education, social change and justice, multiculturalism and diversity, and counseling psychology. I was the co-founder of WISR in 1975.

My BA was in Physics at the University of Colorado, where I was also student body President my senior year. My MA was in Sociology of Education, and my PhD in Higher Education, at the University of California at Berkeley.

I have lived all but two years of my adult life in Oakland and Berkeley, CA. From 1971-73, I taught at the University of Cincinnati.

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